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Why republicans lost (and will continue to lose)
A week after the triumph of America over republicanism, it would appear that the vanquished and humiliated other side isn't taking their crushing defeat all that well. Witness this gem offered by a republican in one of our comment threads.
As for our right-wing ideology being discredited, it has not been. The masses are selfish and want money for nothing and and chicks for free and lots of cheap gas and the left has promised to deliver all that. That is why Obama has been elected. For that reason and because he is Black. He will fail to deliver like all the other Black lefties who have gone before him.
Shorter him (they're always him): we didn't lose because of anything we did wrong. We lost because the American people are stupid and greedy.
Lest you think that this is an isolated opinion, it's not.
Predictably taking the hardest line were the braying tribunes of the right-wing plebs, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. The McCain-detesting Coulter wrote, "The only good thing about McCain is that he gave us a genuine conservative, Sarah Palin. He's like one of those insects that lives just long enough to reproduce so that the species can survive. That's why a lot of us are referring to Sarah as 'The One' these days. Like Sarah Connor in 'The Terminator,' Sarah Palin is destined to give birth to a new movement."
Limbaugh managed to refrain from comparing McCain to an insect, but he joined Coulter in anointing Palin the future queen of the Republican Party. Noting that a Rasmussen poll showed that 69 percent of GOP voters love Palin, Limbaugh sneered, "So all of you wizards of smart on our side, all of you intellectualoids who think that Palin was a drag, the party loves Sarah Palin. The vast majority of conservative Republicans love Sarah Palin. Twenty percent of Republicans who say she hurt the ticket, you are probably the ones that need to go and walk and join across the aisle with the others that you find so much more palatable because they are able to communicate and they are writers and they are intellectual ... The party loves her."
These are the roots of enduring defeat. Continue doing all those things you've been doing, the things that voters overwhelmingly rejected, and then go and insult those voters.
I'm sure that will work. Please, republicans, continue down this path.
Palin '012!
For years, I've defined the difference between Republicans and Democrats with ten words, and to be "fair and balanced," I've allotted five words to each party:
Until now.
Barack Obama decided to assume that voters are, in fact, pretty bright when they're given a chance. He decided that voters do "get it" when "it" is properly explained to them. He's right, and it has to send a chill down the spine of the right wing propagandists who have long strategized based on Democratic inability (or unwillingness) to address American voters head-on.
Totally.
Frank Rich as always out it best:
As it turned out, America was a better country than it would have needed to be for Palin to win. So I encourage the other side to nominate her.
My new favorite hobby
is reading transcriptions of statements by Sarah Palin. This gem from today's Times:
“But not me personally were those cheers for,” she said to Ms. Van Susteren in an interview shown Monday night on Fox News. “But it was just for the representation of a woman on the ticket, a mom, somebody who loves this country so much, somebody very, very committed to policies that I believe will progress this country in the right direction.”
I hope and pray that the Republicans stay totally in love with her for the next four years. If they do, we should all invest in popcorn futures.
Speaking for myself, though, I'd like to near-quote another woman who got a lot of attention during this campaign: for the first time in a very long time, I'm really proud of my country.